Anon: There has been a societal breakdown because people no longer trust law enforcement, the judicial branch, Congress and state legislatures, local councils, administrative branches from the White House down to the local level, the legal profession, the medical profession, big business....the list goes on and on. The trouble is that the people's distrust is thoroughly justified. Corruption is ubiquitous. Greed kills. Best, Don Bauder

RU is right to draw the CRUCIAL distinction between "legal" and justice, the preferred euphemism of the authorities. Ironically and unfortunately, getting all the guns away from everybody but the gun-toting injustice carriers, including "the authorities," will firmly nail down the coffin lid on what little freedom is left.

Think of all that is criminal but not illegal, and all that is illegal but not criminal.